Wait a second, I'm pretty sure that in most contexts, a signature or letterhead means not so much "this is real because it's so obviously genuine", but rather:
"This is real or I am willing to take a forgery rap". As it happens, that's good enough for many if not most non-cash transactions. Now, there are societies where that doesn't work, but they don't usually have a lot of networks. On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 9:00 PM, Brandon Ross <br...@pobox.com> wrote: > > On Wed, 30 Mar 2011, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote: > >> So that _really_ begs the question... Why did Circle Internet and >> (apparently) >> Level3's customer, BANDCON, blindly accept _any_ sort of assertion that the >> crook who hijacked these two /16s had the right to use them? > > What makes you think it was blind? The standard industry practice is to ask > someone requesting to announce a route for a letter on the owner's letter > head authorizing the announcement. Is it really that hard to invent some > letterhead and sign a letter? > > It's probably one of the easiest to circumvent "security" procedures ever. > > Frankly it's a giant waste of time and does nothing other than frustrate > legitimate work. > > -- > Brandon Ross AIM: BrandonNRoss > ICQ: 2269442 > Skype: brandonross Yahoo: BrandonNRoss >
